Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI in June and brought CEO Alexandr Wang and several Scale executives to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Ruben Mayer, Scale AI's former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations, left Meta after two months; Mayer had spent roughly five years at Scale and briefly oversaw AI data operations at Meta but was not placed in TBD Labs. TBD Labs is using third-party vendors including Mercor and Surge to train models. Researchers in TBD Labs reportedly regard Scale AI's data as lower quality and prefer Surge and Mercor. Scale's original crowdsourcing model contrasts with the growing need for expert-curated domain data.
At least one of the executives Wang brought over to help run MSL - Scale AI's former Senior Vice President of GenAI Product and Operations, Ruben Mayer - has departed Meta after just two months with the company, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Mayer spent roughly five years with Scale AI across two stints. In his short time at Meta, Mayer oversaw AI data operations teams and reported to Wang,
Further, TBD Labs is working with third-party data vendors other than Scale AI to train its upcoming AI models, according to five people familiar with the matter. Those third-party vendors include Mercor and Surge, two of Scale AI's largest competitors, the people said. While AI labs commonly work with several data vendors - Meta has been working with Mercor and Surge since before TBD Labs was spun up - it's rare for an AI lab to invest so heavily in one data vendor.
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